Theory of the Trojan-Horse method.

DOI10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00060-5zbMATH Open1126.85303arXivnucl-th/0208069MaRDI QIDQ1395779FDOQ1395779

Authors: D. Massart 

Publication date: 1 July 2003

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Trojan-Horse method is an indirect approach to determine the energy dependence of S-factors of astrophysically relevant two-body reactions. This is accomplished by studying closely related three-body reactions under quasi-free scattering conditions. The basic theory of the Trojan-Horse method is developed starting from a post-form distorted wave Born approximation of the T-matrix element. In the surface approximation the cross section of the three-body reaction can be related to the S-matrix elements of the two-body reaction. The essential feature of the Trojan-Horse method is the effective suppression of the Coulomb barrier at low energies for the astrophysical reaction leading to finite cross sections at the threshold of the two-body reaction. In a modified plane wave approximation the relation between the two-body and three-body cross sections becomes very transparent. The appearing Trojan-Horse integrals are studied in detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0208069

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zbMATH Keywords

Born approximationAstrophysical S factorDistorted waveQuasi-free scatteringTrojan-Horse method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Astronomy and astrophysics (85A99)

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